{"id":1418860,"date":"2026-07-17T16:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukrainian-drones-have-reduced-the-average-lifespan-of-a-russian-soldier-on-the-battlefield-to-30-minutes\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T16:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:42:13","slug":"ukrainian-drones-have-reduced-the-average-lifespan-of-a-russian-soldier-on-the-battlefield-to-30-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/ukrainian-drones-have-reduced-the-average-lifespan-of-a-russian-soldier-on-the-battlefield-to-30-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian drones have reduced the average lifespan of a Russian soldier on the battlefield to 30 minutes."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"132\" data-end=\"376\"><strong>US Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe stated that the average life expectancy of a Russian soldier on the battlefield is only 20-30 minutes due to the effective use of Ukrainian attack drones.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"378\" data-end=\"406\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-07-15\/cia-says-ai-drones-give-russian-troops-only-30-minutes-to-live\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a> reports this.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"408\" data-end=\"676\"> According to Ratcliffe, American intelligence confirms open-source information regarding the situation on the front in Ukraine. He noted that one of the main reasons for the Ukrainian forces&#8217; success was the widespread use of modernized drones equipped with artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"678\" data-end=\"902\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> The CIA director also reported that the US estimates that the Russian army is losing approximately 7,000 troops weekly. He called drones &#8220;highly effective and inexpensive weapons&#8221; that are having a significant impact on the course of military operations.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, residents of Moscow and other regions are complaining en masse about their inability to obtain international passports due to a lack of available appointment slots. Andriy Kovalenko, head of the National Security and Defense Council&#8217;s Center for Countering Disinformation, believes this may indicate <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/rosiiany-masovo-ne-mozhut-oformyty-zakordonni-pasporty-kovalenko-nazvav-prychynu\/\">the Kremlin is preparing for a new wave of mobilization<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe stated that the average life expectancy of a Russian soldier on the battlefield is only 20-30 minutes due to the effective use of Ukrainian attack drones. Bloomberg reports this. According to Ratcliffe, American intelligence confirms open-source information regarding the situation on the front in Ukraine. He noted that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1380037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76875,76871,76872,76874],"class_list":["post-1418860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-news","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1380037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}